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||1872: Marian Smoluchowski born ... physicist and mountaineer. | ||1872: Marian Smoluchowski born ... physicist and mountaineer. | ||
||1879: Milutin Milanković born ... mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist. | ||1879: Milutin Milanković born ... mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist. He gave two fundamental contributions to global science. The first contribution is the "Canon of the Earth’s Insolation", which characterizes the climates of all the planets of the Solar system. The second contribution is the explanation of Earth's long-term climate changes caused by changes in the position of the Earth in comparison to the Sun, now known as Milankovitch cycles. Pic. | ||
||1907: Wang Ganchang born ... nuclear physicist. He was one of the founding fathers of Chinese nuclear physics, cosmic rays and particle physics. Pic. | ||1907: Wang Ganchang born ... nuclear physicist. He was one of the founding fathers of Chinese nuclear physics, cosmic rays and particle physics. Pic. | ||
||1908: Egbert | ||1908: Egbert van Kampen born ... mathematician. He made important contributions to topology, especially to the study of fundamental groups. Pic. | ||
||1911: Alfred Otto Carl Nier born ... physicist who pioneered the development of mass spectrometry. He was the first to use mass spectrometry to isolate uranium-235 which was used to demonstrate that 235U could undergo fission and developed the sector mass spectrometer configuration now known as Nier-Johnson geometry. Pic. | ||1911: Alfred Otto Carl Nier born ... physicist who pioneered the development of mass spectrometry. He was the first to use mass spectrometry to isolate uranium-235 which was used to demonstrate that 235U could undergo fission and developed the sector mass spectrometer configuration now known as Nier-Johnson geometry. Pic. | ||
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1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
1834: Inventor and engineer Charles Grafton Page uses Gnomon algorithm functions to disprove Hollow Earth Theory.
1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1974: Euglena Junction wins the Prime Time Emmy for Best New Show. Broadcasting live from the Pantages Theater via NBC, host Johnny Carson calls it "an extraordinary study of the genus Euglena, and a brilliant parody of Petticoat Junction."
2015: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz dies.
2016: Signed first edition of Ringmaster stolen from the Guggenheim by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.